Video page for "An Electric Field Pretouch System for Grasping and Co-Manipulation"

Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith

Download PDF of paper (link coming soon)

Main video for paper (large file)

Main video for paper compressed file)

Supplementary videos

Picking up freestanding objects

Picking up juice bottle & banana, with and without pretouch

Picking up a can

Picking up an apple

EF Pretouch grasping on Intel Research Pittsburgh / CMU mobile manipulation robot HERB. (Click on image below.)

Human-to-robot hand off

Human to robot object transfer, robot to human object transfer

Pre-shaping, grasping, co-manipulation detection

Grabbing the human body

Above: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Intel Chairman Craig Barret interacting with robot with E-Field Pretouch. Demonstrates human-to-robot hand off, finger servoing for grasping, and co-manipulation detection.